"Xxxxx" <Not_gonna_give@all.com> wrote in
news:qbIkh.9277$6Z5.2058@trndny01:

> Very cute. I'll have to compare it with something similar I'm beta
> testing. From my house in northern Virginia, Stumbler and the other
> thing both detect the same three wireless networks. Both provide the
> basics, but Stumble seems to provide a lot more information. Our
> first house is in the hills, and might or might not be able to pick
> something up nearby. The 2nd house is in a gated community close to
> the water, and I'm betting there will be some "generous" neighbors, or
> that signals will waft across the bay.
>
>

If you know your neighbors, it's also nice to either swap WEP codes with
them or just open up the routers, entirely. We've done that here. If my
cable company goes down, I have one DSL and one other cable company wifi
in range I can go to until mine is fixed. Same for my neighbors, they
use mine. (They use mine lots more than I use their, because theirs is
Comcast, but that's another story..(c

Wifi has such a short range, I've never figured out why people are so
paranoid about just letting their neighbors use it. You're lucky if you
can use it 2 houses away without some serious installations like my
router-in-a-bucket, 50' up the oak tree in my yard. That has a range of
about a mile.